The Village WTF? [Archive]

durtytoothbrush

07-30-2004, 10:58 PM

I just got back from watching M. Night Shyamalon's The Village . I expected great things because of his other two great movies- Signs I didn't like so much but I loved the sixth sense. It was definately another one of those didn't see it comin' kinds of things- I left asking myself WTF??
What did you guys think?

TwisT

07-31-2004, 01:21 AM

Pachyderm

07-31-2004, 01:35 AM

I almost went to see it tonight, but I was too late. I heard some bad reviews about it. Even though it confused you or what ever, was it scary? suspenceful, good, what?

Broken

07-31-2004, 11:41 PM

Give it a rating Like 1 to 5 or something.. 1 Sucks the popcorn was more amusing. 5. Y a gotta see ,,, Blah blah blah.:thumbsup: Use the thumbsup down if you have to,, for now

Pachyderm

07-31-2004, 11:44 PM

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: Just saw it tonight. It's a thinker movie, not a horror. I liked it a lot. Great cinematography, awesome-theme fitting music; Maybe something else behind the concept though.

Broken

07-31-2004, 11:45 PM

Two :thumbsup: :thumbsup: 's From Pach:

durtytoothbrush

07-31-2004, 11:47 PM

I almost went to see it tonight, but I was too late. I heard some bad reviews about it. Even though it confused you or what ever, was it scary? suspenceful, good, what?

*EDIT: SPOILERS ALERT ** (better?)

1/2 :thumbsup: from me

It wasn't scary. Not at all, but it did have some good twists in the end (i suppose) - they weren't really like "OMG" twists, they were "I'm confused now" twists. I didn't really like the ending- it was pretty abrupt with little light shed on what happens next... it was good i guess because i am pretty good at guessing what happens next and didn't with this movie so.. yeah 1/2 thumb up from me...

well i was trying not to give it away for the people that might still want to go see it and whatever. but fuck that... if that's how you feel than stop reading now... here is a synopsis:

there are these creatures that surround this little village and they are attracted to the color red (or the "bad color"). As long as the villagers stay out of the surrounding forest the creatures won't come into the village. well this stupid fucking guy goes into the forest and so the creatures have to come into the village to prove their point- everyone hides in their little trap doors until the things go away (they are out putting marks on the doors).
well the guy that went into the forest in the first place wants to go again to get medicines from the other towns. He falls in love with this blind girl and they decide to get married which makes her mentally retarded brother very jealous and angry- so he stabs the guy. Then the blind girl wants to go into the forest to get medicines for her fiance'- her dad tells her that the monsters aren't real and has her feel one of the creature costumes. so then she isn't really scared to go- but she is blind damn it. on her journey she sees one of the creatures (and at this point ur thinking WTF they aren't real). But it was really her retarded brother which escaped from "the quiet room" and stole a costume. well she kills it (she stands in front of a hole and it chases her and falls in as she ducks out of the way). She makes it to the end where she was told another village would be and a guy hooks her up with the medicine she wants because she tells him that he "has kindness in his voice". the whole village is in a wildlife preserve. she makes it back and you never find out if her bf lives or dies...then it sort of abruptly ends...

Broken

07-31-2004, 11:54 PM

1/2 :thumbsup: from me

..

Great Post..But what the hell is a half thumbsup?

Pachyderm

07-31-2004, 11:54 PM

Okay, I am going to clean up dirty toothbrushes story so if you haven't seen this DON'T READ.

The people in this town are basically stranded there without any medicines or modern day conveniences. The blind girl goes into the forest after her fiance is stabbed and she is told that the creatures aren't real. She goes across the forest and kills her special brother who is pretending to be a creature. She reaches the end of this forest and climbs over the wall to which the audience discovers it's not 1897 to which we previously thought, it is modern day. The government was payed not to have airplanes go over this widelife preserve that they live in so they would all think it was still 1897. The truth is the elders of the town, founded it because they had all been affected by these horrible deaths over money, so they created like a communism so there would be no money or greed and everyone would depend on everybody else. Since the girl is blind, she doesn't know she is in modern times, she gets the medicines and goes back to town where the whole ordeal will probably start over.

durtytoothbrush

08-01-2004, 12:04 AM

Great Post..But what the hell is a half thumbsup?

it translates into "meh- i say yeh rent it" whereas a whole thumsup says "ok- go see it if you want to" and two thumbsup says "great- go see it"

Broken

08-01-2004, 12:09 AM

it translates into "meh- i say yeh rent it" whereas a whole thumsup says "ok- go see it if you want to" and two thumbsup says "great- go see it"
I gotcha; we need a "Flat hand shaking" the universal half assed symbol. For bah at least I got out of the house.

better than you

08-01-2004, 12:09 AM

Are there people in this village? Would you call them... the people of the village? Perhaps... the village people? ROFLMMFAOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!1111oneon eone I r so funneh.

Anyway, this does look like one of the better movies to be hitting the theater this summer. This and that manchurian guy running for office seem to be the only things of interest right now. Hope they're both what they're cracked up to be.

Pachyderm

08-01-2004, 12:14 AM

I will most def have to see The Manchurian Candidate next time I pop into theatres.

durtytoothbrush

08-01-2004, 12:21 AM

I will most def have to see The Manchurian Candidate next time I pop into theatres.

I plan on seeing the old one first, i'd like to compare the two.

otepsoul

08-02-2004, 03:46 PM

it looks good

deus_ex_machina

08-02-2004, 07:24 PM

i personally think the movie kicked ass. 4.5 rating from me :thumbsup:

Skorch

08-03-2004, 12:06 AM

Okay for future reference, if you're going to be giving away valuable information about a movie like that then you will be required to put up some sort of *Spoilers Alert* warning. I would hate to have to resort to editing posts to insert these but I'm pretty serious about not ruining a movie for everyone else.

Icarus

08-07-2004, 11:06 PM

I saw it a bit ago...

The first half of it was like a chick flick... but bonus for the badass-looking monsters, as well as a somewhat-ass kicking blind chick (she doesn't kick physical ass, but that was pretty damn cool in the scene with the monster chasing her [where it fell in to the pit]).

All in all, 3/5. The concept was great, and there was an "OMG" twist at the end (personal opinion), so I'm glad I saw it.

deus_ex_machina

08-09-2004, 09:54 AM

The_DEA

08-09-2004, 09:59 AM

Great Post..But what the hell is a half thumbsup?he got it lopped off when he was masterbateing to close to a mitersaw

GottaHurt

08-09-2004, 12:19 PM

Great Post..But what the hell is a half thumbsup?

:mfinger:

morelos

08-09-2004, 12:25 PM

it was decent. not his best work, but worth the time and the money to see it on the screen. there were some things i liked that he did, and his microcosmic representation of superstitious 19th-century protestant townships demonstrated tremendous knowledge of such 'frontier townships.'

oh, and did i mention the 'twist' was a little more extreme than i thought, but it was poorly done. he should have done it through ivy's point of view (black screen) and eliminated everything except the patrolman's voice, and then played his cop radio when revealing the twist.

Icarus

08-09-2004, 06:36 PM

How many people would sit there at a black screen and actually enjoy it?

I would, and you probably would (since its your idea), but I don't think that it would reach half as many people that way.

morelos

08-09-2004, 06:56 PM

How many people would sit there at a black screen and actually enjoy it?

I would, and you probably would (since its your idea), but I don't think that it would reach half as many people that way.

it could be very brief: from the THUMP until the cop talks to her, then she talks back, then you get a scene from over the cop's back with his radio making chatter.

i'm trying to solve a problem i poorly stated: i felt the twist happened too GRADUALLY.

BRiT

08-09-2004, 07:23 PM

This movie was total waste of time.

Icarus

08-09-2004, 08:11 PM

Ah. I suppose I misunderstood, I thought you meant it was black until she returned to the village.

I also didn't like when they said "Noah found the suit we hid under the floorboards!" Way to remove any thought on the part of the audience :thumbsdn:

morelos

08-09-2004, 08:40 PM

This movie was total waste of time.

total waste of time like "passion of the christ?" i now benchmark movie shittiness to 'passion.'

the limit, as time approaches 0, of worth-while of watching 'passion,' is negative infinity.

so, by my logic, anything that doesn't converge cannot be a total waste of time :P

~ dan ~

except reading one of my posts.

durtytoothbrush

08-09-2004, 10:42 PM

he got it lopped off when he was masterbateing to close to a mitersaw

I"m not a boy :tongue:

morelos

08-09-2004, 10:47 PM

he got it lopped off when he was masterbateing to close to a mitersaw
I"m not a boy

and now we know why.

skylinec

08-10-2004, 08:52 AM

i loved the village the ratings said it sucked because the costumes looked fake.
but there supposed too. see the movie you will not be disapointed

durtytoothbrush

08-10-2004, 04:30 PM

and now we know why.

ouch... i walked right into that

Seije

08-21-2004, 10:14 AM

I felt sad for the blind girl and the guy who got stabbed...i was like nooo
dumbass retarded freak should die!..oh wait he did..and i loved when it happened, i thought she was gonna committ suicide or something, and then she moved outta the way and the freak fell to his death...i didn't see that coming, i was all like whoo hooo, yea
well i probly just ruined it for those who haven't seen it...

oh and i thought that the commercials really screwed it up for me..it woulda been better if i hadn't have seen them like my friend cause he thinks the movie is awesome

morelos

08-21-2004, 10:22 AM

ouch... i walked right into that

ahahah.. right into the miter saw? i'm sure it did hurt.

~ dan ~

Seije

08-21-2004, 10:23 AM

ahahah.. right into the miter saw? i'm sure it did hurt.

~ dan ~
hahhaa..walked into that mistake twice now
good one morelos

darklord2k

11-30-2004, 08:39 PM

that movie was bad. the begining made you think it was going to be scary but in the end all it was some retard in a costume. it left me unfulfilled in the scared dept. as well thinking it was a crappy movie :thumbsdn: :thumbsdn: :thumbsdn:

TheLampIncident

11-30-2004, 09:34 PM

I watched the first hour of this movie and couldn't stand it anymore. I'd never been so bored in all my life.